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title: Then ten of us set spurs to our horses; and five of us forced our wa… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Then ten of us set spurs to our horses; and five of us forced our way through, but the other five fell before the spears of the mountain men. Who acts: five, other five. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 28

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Then ten of us set spurs to our horses; and five of us forced our way through, but the other five fell before the spears of the mountain men.

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**Who acts:** five, other five · **What happens:** force, fall · **To what, where:** way, spears

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five, other five), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:27:28
# text = Then ten of us set spurs to our horses; and five of us forced our way through, but the other five fell before the spears of the mountain men.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	forced	force	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	through	through	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force** | past | five of us | our way |  |  |  | through *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the other five |  |  | the spears of the mountain men |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before spear=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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